It's 1969 kids!

This fortnights album is ‘David Bowie’, the second album by (wait for it…) David Bowie. It was released in 1969, but what else was going on that year hmmm? Well, seeing as you asked so nicely:






In January Richard Milhous Nixon became 37th President of “those there” United States. The Vietnam war went progressively downhill and in October hundreds of thousands of people took part in National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations across the United States.
It was the year that British troops were deployed in Northern Ireland. It took a further 25 years to agree a cease fire.




The Beatles gave an impromptu concert on the roof of Apple Records. It was broken up by police and turned out to be their last public performance. This year they also released Abbey Road. John Lennon got so upset about the war in Vietnam that he stayed in bed all week, recorded ‘All we are saying is give peace a chance’ and sent his MBE back to the Queen. Hilarity ensued.

1969 was also the year that the first HIV strain is believed to have reached the USA.





In July NASA landed 2 blokes on the moon. In November they did it again.

The Mariner 7 probe made its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometres). But (ahem) was there life?

Oh, and the jumbo jet made it’s public debut.